The Struggles after …
Everyone admires a successful person. I do!! I’m sure you do too. We all at one point wish to be a person of influence. But like a writer once said: “If the successful ones tell you what they have been through to be where they are right now, you would not wish to be like them”(paraphrased).
I have always had a vision of me in a big spacious office with a gigantic name tag on my desk, flowers and a tea pot by one side of the table but now I am done with school, Trying to get there, LAWD!! It isn't as easy as I thought at first.
For some of us that do not have wealthy relatives or connections at the top, we have to go through each phase solely by the grace of God and encouragement from friends and loved ones.
During NYSC, I remember a friend always insisted I applied while serving so before I’m done, at least I would have a graduate trainee job. I did apply, though at that point I didn’t know much about the whole emailing etiquettes so I never attached body to the mails. I just send CV as attachment and BOOM! I would be waiting hopefully for interview.
Well, it was till few months later, I got a grounding on how to send applications via mail. I had sent millions of mails already that were never acknowledged. (Many still make same mistakes till date). When I finally got an interview and had passed all stages, I was held back because I had to relocate to a new state for this job and I currently had no one there so I tearfully let that offer go. Painful though.
Two months later, I got two offers, one as a teacher, the other as a Management Trainee. I went for the one that seemed better at the time: Management Trainee. Few days after resumption, I realized It was just a name, the hob was something else… Though I couldn’t just give up as I had finally relocated from home, living alone. This was just the beginning. After two months work, no salary. The MD came into the office one day for no valid reason, and said I should choose between being fired or resigning myself. HABA!!! Na so work-life be? I requested for my salary of two months, long story began, no salary.
I went back to being jobless for another two months. Got interviews though either some were not worth it, or I was plain scared I might experience the same thing as the first job. I became depressed. Then miraculously, a new job came by, another state again. Another relocation. This time help came, I got a place to stay.
Though, still pushing for a better future, better pay, better life, make I follow wear bone straight too na … LOLZZZ. I’ve had series of other interviews, been rejected by a bank because at the end of their interview stage, they requested as assessment we bring certain number of customers, I couldn’t meet the deadline in 7 days, ended up losing that.
I still know the future is brighter, that great career I dreamed of will come to fulfilment, though for now, we keep pushing. Fully confident that there is hope for a brighter future.
Cheers to all in this struggle of a better life. We will all have Testimonies at the end.
#We_Move #No_Shaking
